We are proud to announce our first release for the 1.7 series of Xibo. The codename for this series is “Tuttle”.
It has taken us a little over 4 months to bring you the new features in this release – the highlights are:
- Clean, modern user interface
- Improved translatable manual
- Scheduling Calendar with Day, Week and Month Views
- Simplified Player Registration and Configuration
- Advanced Player Configuration managed from the CMS
- Screen Shot Request from the Player
- Media RSS support
- Twitter support
- Weather provided by Forecast IO
- Effects for Text based media
- New options for scaling web pages and embedded content
- Many bug fixes and improvements
- Settings for force HTTPS/STS
- Reporting for Client up / down events.
- Improved Sorting for all table data.
- “Select All” functions in key places.
- Tabs for the Settings page.
- Options for ticker media to not strip attributes.
- Options for ticker media to strip certain tags.
- Better database Export (works with larger databases when Apache Sendfile mode is enabled).
- Date formatting for Tickers.
- General Date formatting.
- Translated Calendar (JavaScript Translations).
- Remove Inactive users from the permissions list.
- Switched all HTML based media to HTML5 doctype.
- Option to scale embedded media.
- and much more.
The release notes are available in the manual and the download is available on Github.
We would like to take this opportunity to say a big Thank You to everyone involved in the Xibo Project Community. We couldn’t release Xibo without the help we get from people who reported bugs, submitted patches or donated money.
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